I don't hunt alone often but do occasionally when all my partners are unable to accompany me. As bad as I wanted to hunt this morning I didn't because no one else was available to come and I thought hunting alone was too risky. Another thing I take special care to do this time of year that I rarely do earlier in the season is get at least one other person in thr boat with me when going to retrieve downed birds. Normally I leave my hunting partners on shore to keep watch on downed birds and shoot any birds that have life reintroduced into them whIle I run to fetch the boat and ride out after the dead birds. I know even if someone is there to call for help when it is this cold if they can't get me back into the boat within a couple minutes it is game over, which is a big down side to only having one boat per group